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Independence Day: Let America be America again
June 30, 2016In a time when demagogues try to convince us that America needs to be "great again," Hughes reminds us of the dream of what America could be.
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Pat Summitt, 64: Gender pioneer
June 28, 2016Summitt, if you don't know, was the legendary and beloved women's basketball coach at the University of Tennessee.
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This week in LGBTQ history: UN issues Free & Equal stamps
June 27, 2016In February of this year, the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) issued a set of six stamps promoting the UN Free & Equal campaign.
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Decades later, Mississippi is still burning
June 27, 2016In 1964, the brutal slayings of three civil rights workers rocked the country. Their deaths cast a spotlight on horrifice violence and injustice.
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Baptists, citing another tradition in the South, denounce Confederate flag
June 23, 2016Two recent, very different, actions illustrate that although those in power have tried to repress it, the tradition of fighting racism in the South runs as deep as the racism itself.
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